Google search of election results links to ‘news’ article that falsely claims Trump won popular vote

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WASHINGTON — If you go to Google and search “final election results popular vote,” one of the top results under “In the news” is a website that lists the wrong numbers and claims Donald Trump won the popular vote.

“Anyone asking where I got the figures, it was from twitter posts. Knowing the Democrat media have been dragging their liberal feet giving Michigan to Trump – finally they did, with Arizona finally declared two days ago – Trump now has the 309. Except for the twitter posts, the popular vote number still need to be updated in Wikipedia or MSM media – which may take another few days because the liberals are still reeling and recovering from Trump-shock victory. If I’m wrong, I won’t hesitate to change the numbers. It’s the job of the establishment media to tell the people the final numbers when it’s out there already.”

“Michael” lists no source for the numbers and his bio doesn’t provide any insight into his possible qualifications. He does indicate he is a Trump supporter by using #TrumpTrain.

On Sunday, the fact-checking website Snopes addressed the issue of who won the popular vote, saying, “All the ballots haven’t been counted yet, but it looks like Hillary Clinton really did win the nationwide popular vote — if not the presidency — by a considerable margin.”

Clinton’s lead “is expected to grow as more votes are counted from blue states and districts such as Washington and California, which still has around 4 million votes to count,” according to a Buzzfeed article posted Monday.